head-first wrote:
How many nights is Stonehenge -or any other British monument- actually moon- or starlit? Loie and I have had two Private Visits to Stonehenge. Our Sunrise visit was too cloudy to see the sun at all, although watching the diffuse light grow was pleasant. On our Sunset Visit, it teemed rain so hard that after twenty minutes we two were the only visitors remaining. We had a nice chat with the night guard.
But what would be the point of Illuminating Stonehenge? Isn't the walkway closed at night?
As for dark night skies, most of today's problems are caused much more by bad lighting practices and humidity than by smoky pollution. That wasn't true during, say, the Sixties in places like Los Angeles. ****That**** pollution I saw. Yuck. For example, here in north central Maryland, East Coast Megalopolis, we have fairly dark skies in the winter. We can see the Milky Way perfectly well. It was visible last night.
But during the humid summer, our southern sky is a dome of orange glow as we look toward Westminster and the Baltimore and Washington suburbs. Dark Sky Compliant out door lighting would eliminate most of that light pollution.
